The Design Center: Want to hone your design skills? You can start with the basics, work through the general design tips, and then get down to the nitty-gritty with tips for designing ads, brochures, logos, newsletters, and Websites.

Doing Business: Learn the business side of design. Find a wealth of expert business advice, from self-promotion to client relations, from people-management to freelancing success.

Copywrite Your Work: Creative Commons helps you publish your work online while letting others know exactly what they can and can't do with your work. If you already have a website loaded with your own work, follow the steps below, otherwise try one of our guides to publishing your licensed work at a variety of hosting services.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO): "I talk about how may page rank went from 0 to 5 in one update. How articles did it for me and how it can work for you. Plus small but important tid-bits."

II. RESOURCES

How to create a FavIcon: Would you like to display your own icon on the browser address bar when visitors view or bookmark your web page? Now it's easy to create icons for your web pages with FavIcon from Pics. Simply select a picture, logo or other graphic (of any size/resolution) for the "Source Image" and click "Generate FavIcon.ico"

Free Stock Photo Resource: Whether you just want to browse our huge image gallery or want to share your personal photos with others, this is the site for you!

Image Uploads: Need to upload an image? Below are various sources for you to do just that.

Sketch Up: Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create, modify and share 3D models. It's easier to learn than other 3D modeling programs, which is why so many people are already using it. We designed SketchUp's simplified toolset, guided drawing system and clean look-and-feel to help you concentrate on two things: getting your work done as efficiently as possible, and having fun while you're doing it.

Blender: Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License

Online Machine Shop: "Why waste time traveling, calling, faxing or emailing to conventional machine shops - and waiting days for quotations? Reduce your total time up to 90%! Open doors to new products and projects, to inventing new things, to reducing the cost of parts and more. Quantity 1 to 1,000,000. Look what we can do for you! eMachineShop's FREE Intelligent design software gives instant exact pricing, expert feedback, and unrivaled convenience."

3DPlus&Animation: 3DPlus is the amazing 3D design software that enables you to create stunning 3D graphics for your home, school or business - no experience required! (free)

Drawplus : DrawPlus is the amazing drawing and graphics software that enables you to create stunning vector graphics, family trees, room layouts and even web animations. (free)

Gimp: GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. (free)

PanterX: New CorelÂ® Painterâ„¢ Xâ€”the world's most powerful Natural-MediaÂ® painting and illustration softwareâ€”features unique digital brushes, art materials and textures that mirror the look and feel of their traditional counterparts. Setting the standard for digital painting and illustration, the Corel Painter X digital art studio introduces new composition tools, unparalleled performance, and the all-new RealBristleâ„¢ painting system that models traditional brushes like never beforeâ€”right down the individual bristles on the brush!

Paint.NET: Paint.NET is a free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative userface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

Pixel2Life: For almost every design program you can think of, there is a tutorial for it here. Extensive directory for those looking to improve their design or programming skills, or searching for new ideas to help them develop their skills.

3DBuzz: For all things 3D this is the site for you. A simple and free registration opens up a world of free video tutorials on some of the worlds best 3D software and game engine editors.

Good Tutorials: When they say "Good Tutorials" they're not exaggerating! Want to hone your photoshop/html/flash/etc skills? This site is just what you need to hone in those skills you never knew you had!

Absolute Cross: "A one-stop resource for webmasters, programmers, & graphic design professionals. Here you'll find a rich selection of high quality tutorials, ideas, and imagery to help you on your way as a web developer."

Planet Photoshop: Featuring photoshop tutorials, tips and news. Definately a place to go for all things photoshop.

Photoshop Cafe: Welcome to the Photoshop Cafe, a free resource for photoshop tutorials and tips boasting over 6 million unique visitors.

Tutorialized: Photoshop Tutorials, flash tutorials, a great stop if you're in need of some photoshop and flash assistance.

Art Lex: ArtLex is a dictionary of art for everyone interested in art production and its history. You will find articles on thousands of art terms, along with terrific images, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web.

Corbis: Enjoy over 1.6 million images online - the largest digital collection on the web. Enjoy royalty-free or traditional licensing of images.

Creativity 103: This site currently contains almost 200mb of free abstract digital photos and backgounds ready for you to download.

Creatas: Creatas provides high-quality, royalty-free stock photography, illustration, and footage, as well as design tools such as Pantone, Linotype, and FontHaus. Its vast library brings together the world's most highly recognized and highly-regarded brands, providing innovative, compelling, and thought-provoking images.

Deadline Pictures: Deadline Pictures is a photostock agency, launched on March 2000, with the purpose of making alternative photography available for designers. As a new-born company we only use the ideal medium for distributing pictures: the Internet. Fast, cheap, 24 hours a day.

Digital Vision: Digital Vision is a leading producer of digital content for the creative community. Our goal is to help creative people create more easily.

Dreams Time: Photographers and designers using film or digital equipment are enabled now to sell their portfolio of images online. Dreamstime.com aims on creating a powerful photo community, providing royalty free images and royalty free stock imagery or photos to DTP designers, web designers, photos for printing brochures, advertisements, magazine or newspaper ads, and electronic use on websites or Flash interactive animations.

aPictura: Online searchable library of royalty free images. Collections of CDRoms and instant download of high resolution, ready to use photographs and illustrations.

Fisrt Light: Rights-managed and royalty-free, plus a whole extravaganza of other exotic treats.

Image State: Known for its original, stylish imagery and the professional way the company always incorporates the latest digital techniques into their products, John Fox Images has more than 15,000 professional royalty-free stock images.

IM-Visions: Buy unique high resolution images at affordable prices. Quickbuy and instant download single photos for only $5.95 !

I-Stock Photo: members buy/sell high resolution, royalty-free stock photos for just $3.00 or less each.

I-Stock Photo: Check out the exciting new royalty-free images from IT Stock Free, one of the world's prominent independent picture producers.

Liquid Library: LiquidLibrary is the refreshingly different design resource that includes unlimited access to over 75,000 high-quality, royalty -free photos and illustration, and a Media Mix consisting of lively, energetic music tracks, attention-getting motion, and professional PowerPoint templates.

Alun Blue: Stock Footage and Image Library. A Luna Blue provides highly creative royalty-free stock footage and photography. Digitally produced for broadcast, desktop video and all new media. Available on QuickTime CD, DVD and file download.

Media Bakery: Media Bakery provides royalty free content and media licensing services to businesses around the globe. Combining an aggregated collection of Royalty Free publishers, broadband and internet technologies with one of the world\\'s largest royalty free publisher sources.

Morgue File: A place to keep post production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.

Can you add http://www.cgtextures.com/ to the textures or stock photos list?
It's a great site with really good (and large) textures. I mainly use it for grunge mapping or to add a paper texture to a photo or design. There's some great stuff for grunge and pop art.
Downside is there is a 15mb a day limit. Most large images are 1-2MB. For web use and smaller images, you can get a good amount within the limit. I think there may be ways around the limit too, reseting cookies, or using a different browser, i'm not sure. I only use a couple a day max so no big deal.